Patong Tuk Tuk Taxi Driver Surrenders After Hit and Run Injury of Saudi Arabian Pedestrian

Patong –

A Tuk Tuk taxi driver surrendered to Phuket police after he hit and injured a Saudi Arabian pedestrian and left the scene of the accident.

Patong Police Chief Colonel Sujin Nilbodee told the Phuket Express that on Wednesday night (September 13^th) at 7:45 P.M a Tuk Tuk taxi hit a foreign tourist who was walking on the footpath of Rainbow Road in Patong before speeding away.

The Tuk Tuk taxi driver later surrendered to the Patong Police and was identified only as Mr. Eakkaluck, 37.

The foreign tourist was later fully identified as Mr. Alotaibi Meshari Midad, 38, a Saudi Arabian national. He was taken to the Patong hospital.

The Tuk Tuk taxi driver told the police that after he hit the man he went to the Patong Hospital to visit the tourist before coming to the police station to surrender himself.

Police are continuing their investigation and considering further legal action.

The original version of this article appeared on our sister website, The Phuket Express, owned by our parent company TPN media.